Insect-eating bats, not fruit bats, sparked Ebola outbreak, study says

The fruit bat has long been suspected of sparking the ongoing Ebola epidemic in West Africa, but new research suggests that it may have been an insect-eating bat that first transmitted the virus to a human host.



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